Passailigue (pronounced Pas-a-laig), on October 2, 1932, in Brooklyn New York. His father, Ernesto Passailigue, a native of the Dominican Republic, was raised in Santurice, Puerto Rico. He and his family immigrated to the United States just prior to the outbreak of World War I. Paisley's mother, Dorothy Charest Passailigue, was of French-Canadian descent, and was originally from Pelham, New York.
The Passailigue family lived in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City. Paisley's father worked as a truck driver until 1942, when his parents decided to move to Tampa, Florida. Although they had friends in the Tampa area the move did not work out as anticipated, and the family never settled in the south. They returned to New York City two years later, and Paisley's father resumed his old job. Years later, Paisley's experiences in Tampa were to provide the material for his first novel, New York City Too Far from Tampa Blues.
Throughout his childhood Paisley sought refuge from the mean streets of the city in public libraries. His first impressions of a world outside his own were formed by reading. As an adolescent, Paisley began appearing publicly as a singer and musician.
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